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TI-2026-67248 Aliases GHSA-5x78-73v4-xg6w

postgres-protocol: Unbounded SCRAM iteration count allows a malicious server to cause CPU-exhaustion denial of service

Priority LOW 38CWE-770Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
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Privileges required
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User interaction
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Attack complexity
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Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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Fix status
Fixed

No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from GitHub. Impact type from CWE-770.

Summary

A malicious, compromised, or man-in-the-middle server can supply an arbitrarily large SCRAM-SHA-256 PBKDF2 iteration count during authentication. The client runs it inline with no upper bound, pinning a `tokio` worker thread for minutes per connection, possibly stalling the whole async runtime. Applications that connect only to a trusted database are not exposed; the risk applies to clients that may connect to untrusted or user-supplied servers, or whose connection can be intercepted by a man-in-the-middle.

Why it matters now

Fix Fixed postgres-protocol (crates.io): 0.6.12

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
—postgres-protocol (crates.io)0.3.0 to before 0.6.120.6.12Patch availableGHSA-5x78-73v4-xg6w
  • postgres-protocol (crates.io) Vendor— Affected 0.3.0 to before 0.6.12 Fixed in 0.6.12 Patch available GHSA-5x78-73v4-xg6w

Remediation

  • Fix · GHSA-5x78-73v4-xg6w postgres-protocol (crates.io) Fixed in 0.6.12 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-03 Threatist record created from GHSA-5x78-73v4-xg6w

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